From on board the moving PS Pevensey on the River Murray

The Hero is a paddle steamer that was built at Echuca in 1874 by George Linklater. The working life of Hero first ended in 1957,
but it was later restored c2000 as a first class luxury paddle steamer finely fitted-out for private charters

PS Pevensey is named after a sheep property on the Murrumbidgee River called Pevensey Station.
The paddle steamer was built at the Moama slipway in 1911 by Permewan Wright & Co. Ltd.

Pevensey collected bales of wool from sheep stations and brought them to the Echuca wharf. From the wharf,
it was loaded onto trains and taken to Melbourne for export overseas. Pevensey could carry 815 bales of wool and a total of
2000 bales when barges were towed along behind.


After the river trade ended, Pevensey was tied up at Mildura. It later was towed to Echuca to be restored in 1973.





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